Presentation Co-op: Endangered Animals
Fall 2006

January 16th, 2008

Our latest co-op is a study of endangered species. All ages are welcome to join us for this fun, informative, and enlightening series of assignments. On Monday, October 16, 2006 at 6:30, we’ll be meeting at the Gulf Gate library to share our presentations. It will work like the people and places co-op in that an assignment will be sent out approximately every week.

Please select an animal to study that is threatened or endangered. A comprehensive list is available at Kids’ Planet. Please make your selection and e-mail me at guessaname@verizon.net to let me know so I can add you to the list.

You can join in at any time before the meeting in October. Simply come back here to check the assignments and either jump in where we are, or go back and do the assignments you’ve missed.

Assignment #1

What does your animal look like? Using whatever medium you would like, make a representation of your animal. Paint, draw, collage, ink, pointillism, or photocopy… whatever you would like. Tell the animal’s weight and size, and other pertinent info.

Assignment #2

Where does your animal live? Make a map or stick pictures of or symbols for your animal on an existing map.

Assignment #3

What is your animal’s habitat? Made a model or create some other way to show us what it looks like where your animal lives.

Assignment #4

What does your animal eat? Make some food for your animal. You can either draw a picture, or create the food out of clay or some other medium. Or you can just write about it. Use your imagination.

Assignment #5

How does your animal behave? How do they spend their day? How are you going to demonstrate this? You could do a skit, write a story, or come up with something entirely different.

Assignment #6

What is the population of your animal? Show us or tell us. This might be a good opportunity to practice making graphs. How has the animal’s population grown or declined over the years? How long does your animal live?

Assignment #7

How often does your animal have babies? How many does it have at one time? Anything interesting about the way the babies are raised you would like to share? What are the babies called? Make a representation of them.

Assignment #8

What threatens your animal? Why is it endangered? Show us what has caused the decline in this animal’s numbers. Draw or paint a picture, make a model, or show us in some other way.

Assignment #9

What have you learned about endangered animals? What do you think we can do to help?

Assignment #10

Food! :-) Please bring something to the presentations. This can either be something from the region where your animal lives, something that your animal eats, something that looks like what your animal eats, or whatever else you can come up with. Please be sure to put a card in front of your food telling us how your food relates to the animal you chose.